Those looking for a Jurassic Park replacement are in luck, as a new dinosaur movie has just debuted with a glowing Rotten ...

It's official: Primitive life could have lived on ancient Mars, NASA says. A sample of Mars drilled from a rock by NASA's Curiosity rover and then studied by onboard instruments "shows ancient ...

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Scientists said that if water exists on the planet, geothermal heating could create a subsurface ocean where primitive life might exist.

It is no doubt an oversimplification to state that horizontal gene transfer, the development of eukaryotes, multicellularity, and sexual reproduction are all it takes to go from primitive life to ...

A new analysis of the oldest known fossil microorganisms provides strong evidence to support an increasingly widespread understanding that life in the universe is common. J. William Schopf and ...